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Voices: Thomas Sowell's farewell

Regarding Thomas Sowell's final syndicated article dated December 27th, it is only fitting that he describes in one sentence the root cause of America's decline; "Years of lying Presidents - Democrat Lyndon Johnson . . . especially".

Voices: Thomas Sowell's farewell

Regarding Thomas Sowell's final syndicated article dated Dec. 27, it is only fitting that he describes in one sentence the root cause of America's decline "Years of lying Presidents — Democrat Lyndon Johnson ... especially."

President Johnson's greatest lie was his so-called "War on Poverty" which resulted in massive "Great Society" welfare program, which in a short 50 years have decimated the disadvantaged family unit (i.e. out-of-wedlock childbirths), resulting in the social chaos we are witnessing from Baltimore to Baton Rouge. The chaos is even in Louisiana kindergartens now, as 5-year-olds from disadvantaged families are being expelled from school in record numbers as they have no respect for authority.

Unfortunately, the Great Society programs were nothing more than a master plan to use taxpayer dollars to buy votes, and Democrats of all colors — liberals, progressives and radicals — climbed on this social justice train to Washington for power and money. Our Founding Fathers warned us that this could happen.